the WEEKLYPEDIA (English, Issue 311)

Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity.

Articles

This week, 179,779 authors made 761,769 changes to 345,370 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week:

2019–20 coronavirus outbreak (1,242 changes by 248 authors)
2020 coronavirus outbreak in Italy (964 changes by 153 authors)
North East Delhi riots (719 changes by 96 authors)
Timeline of the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak in February 2020 (549 changes by 77 authors)
Monster Truck Madness (547 changes by 5 authors)
2020 coronavirus outbreak in Europe (514 changes by 134 authors)
2020 Nevada Democratic caucuses (514 changes by 115 authors)
Super ShowDown (2020) (444 changes by 151 authors)
Deaths in 2020 (420 changes by 77 authors)
2019–20 coronavirus outbreak by country and territory (337 changes by 113 authors)
Education in Greece (305 changes by 15 authors)
2020 Asia Cup Qualifier (299 changes by 28 authors)
Tourette syndrome (292 changes by 7 authors)
Urdu alphabet (291 changes by 5 authors)
Mike Hughes (daredevil) (267 changes by 129 authors)
Andromeda (mythology) (256 changes by 2 authors)
2020 Qatar Total Open – Singles (251 changes by 30 authors)
Hanau shootings (239 changes by 98 authors)
J. Havens Richards (237 changes by 1 authors)
Sicilian Baroque (233 changes by 8 authors)

The ten most actively edited articles created within the last week

2020 coronavirus outbreak in Italy (964 changes by 153 authors)
North East Delhi riots (719 changes by 96 authors)
2020 coronavirus outbreak in Europe (515 changes by 135 authors)
2020 coronavirus outbreak in Iran (233 changes by 67 authors)
2020 Abierto Mexicano Telcel – Men's Singles (182 changes by 20 authors)
Lisa von Pott (168 changes by 6 authors)
2020 African Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament (165 changes by 11 authors)
2020 Abierto Mexicano Telcel – Women's Singles (161 changes by 17 authors)
David Ayres (146 changes by 63 authors)
1957 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships (130 changes by 4 authors)

The most active discussions:

A few numbers from last week:

110,257 registered users and 69,522 unregistered users made 761,769 edits to 345,370 articles
Unregistered users made 168,000 edits to 82,132 articles
41 robots made 54,124 edits to 52,701 articles

This project retrieves a list of the week's recent changes using Wikimedia Tool Labs, and delivers emails using MailChimp. Code and more information available on GitHub. Built by Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi.